Chap. 1133.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved February 27, 1806, as further amended by an
act approved March 3, 1806, as further amended by an act approved February
7, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved January 24, 1900, in rela-
tion to the collection of the fees of the commissioner of the revenue.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five hundred and twenty five of the code of Vi irginia, in relation to the
collection of fees of the commissioner of the revenue, as amended by
an act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, as further amended by an act approved ‘March third, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, as further amended by an act approved February
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, as further amended by
an act approv od January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 525. How made out and collected.—The commissioners may make
out tickets for their fees and place them in the hands of a sheriff or con-
stable to be collected and accounted for in the same manner that clerk’s
fees are collected and accounted for. The said commissioners shall be
subject to the same penalties as clerks of the courts for issuing tickets
wrongfully: provided, however, that in the counties of Henrico, ‘Chester-
field, Bedford, Elizabeth City, Hanover, Pulaski, Giles, Brunswick, Mont-
gomery, Rockbridge, Northumhe rland, Orange, Roanoke, Albemarle,
Isle of Wight, Augusta, Amelia, Nottow av, W: arwick, Warren, Clarke,
Norfolk, and Culpeper, and in the cities of Richmond, "Manchester, Nor-
folk, Roanoke, Staunton, Alexandria, Newport News, Charlottesville,
Danville, and Buena Vista, the transfer fees allowed by law to the com-
missioner of the revenue for said counties and cities shall be collected
by the clerk of the court of record of said counties and cities at the time
of recording deed: and, provided further, that in no case shall but one
fee be charged; and, in order to avoid any misconception of this act, the
fee shall be collected from the first vendee, and no additional fee for
the transfer of any property on which said fee has been paid shall be col-
lected during the fiscal year terminating on the thirty-first day of De-
cember of each year. The clerk at the time the commissioner of the
revenue returns to the clerk’s office the land books, according to law,
shall account to him for the fees so collected, deducting therefrom a
comnussion of ten per centum for his services, except that the clerk of
the corporation court of the city of Alexandria and the clerks of the
county courts of Pulaski, Roanoke, Culpeper, and Norfolk counties
may deduct therefrom a commission of twenty-five per centum for their
services.
%. Vhis act shall be in force from its passage.